Suhail el-Nazar

Suhail el-Nazar (28 June 1931-), also known as Abu Ilyas, was a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) leader.

Biography
Suhail el-Nazar was born in Kabatiya, Mandatory Palestine on 28 June 1931 to a Sunni Muslim Palestinian family. el-Nazar's family grew apricots, but their livelihood was ruined by civil war with the Jews in 1947. el-Nazar fought alongside Arab Liberation Army troops during the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-1949, and he joined the fedayeen in the years following the war. el-Nazar moved to Syria, where he became involved with communist organizations. el-Nazar became a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1967 after serving on the Palestine Liberation Organization's military council, and he became an operations director for the group. He ordered attacks such as the Manot massacre of 1974, and he became a wanted man. In 1982, he was believed to have been killed in the fighting in Beirut, during the Lebanese Civil War, but he managed to survive the war, and he fled to Tunisia with the rest of the PLO leadership. el-Nazar was opposed to the Oslo Accords, but he was also opposed to continued terrorist attacks targeting civilians, favoring attacks on the IDF so as to not upset the rest of the world.